[mythtv-users] Difference between WinTV PVR-250 and 150?
Wade Maxfield
mythtv at hotblack.co.nz
Thu Jan 12 21:46:37 UTC 2006
>I'm looking at these 2 cards back-to-back on the Hauppage site:
>
><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html
>
><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html
>
> And I'm not seeing any difference, besides the tech specs.
>
> In layman's terms, why would I use a 250 vs. a 150 for a second
>capture card? (I'm using a PVR-250 as my current primary capture
>card).
>
>Technically speaking
>WinTV-PVR-150 contains a high quality 10-bit video digitizer with 4
>line adaptive comb filter to reduce video noise, plus a highly
>integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder. WinTV-PVR-150 can record full
>screen TV or video at data rates from 2.5 to 12 Mbits/sec from TV,
>VCR or camcorder. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus,
>where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be
>played back to the PC screen while recording.
>
>Technically speaking
>WinTV-PVR-250 contains a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware
>encoder, plus a high quality video digitizer. WinTV-PVR-250 can
>record full screen TV or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as
>little as 1.5GB of hard disk space per hour. The encoded MPEG-2
>video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard
>disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while
>recording.
>
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Picture quality aside (and on my system I can't really see much of a
difference) there seems to be a noticeable difference, as others have
mentioned recently, in the volume the 150 records at compared to the
250.
- Wade
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